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A trade deal with Canada has broken down and, although new import controls have constrained Scotland, our neighbours and friends in Northern Ireland, who also voted to remain in the European Union, get a completely different deal.
Does the minister agree that tackling fuel poverty has to be the central aim of the Scottish Government’s new deal for tenants in the private rented sector, who are disproportionately in poorly insulated properties?
Our reforms are now focusing on working with industry and local authorities to ensure that the new system does all that it can to support the delivery of good-quality development.
Through the Borderlands growth deal, we have also committed £16 million to support the redevelopment of Stranraer marina, with a focus on creating new jobs and drawing in new visitors to the area.
The Minister for Community Wealth and Public Finance chairs the new deal for business non-domestic rates sub-group, which includes representatives of the hospitality industry.
We are now left with unsuitable and potentially unhealthy buildings, which will only be made habitable and not replaced with the new school buildings that are so desperately needed.